Anonymous Quotes

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

If you are a Social Democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, taxation is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Human laws are entirely destitute of the sanction of rewards. To confer honors for obedience would be as ridiculous as unavailing. The honor of many would resolve itself into the honor of none. To dispense pecuniary rewards would be nugatory or impracticable. In an unqualified extent, no government would be able to supply the funds; and even in a restricted form, its operation would be to receive money with one hand as a premium, and to pay it back with the other in the shape of a tax.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

I vote and I do jury duty.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

Those who do not give assistance according to their ability when a village is being plundered, a dyke is being destroyed, or a highway robbery committed, shall be banished with their goods and chattels.

I want to pay taxes. I love this country.

Paying taxes is a little coercive.

Everybody should pay taxes.

If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

No sane person enjoys paying tax... money, after all, is a very nice thing to have. But it's the price we all pay for so many vital things in this country - and those of us lucky enough to have a bit more should be proud to be paying a little bit more as well.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.